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Wednesday, August 10

10:45 AM - 5:00 PMCOPE North American Seminar 2016

“Ethics in Peer Review”

5:00 PM - 6:00 PMJoint ISMTE - COPE Reception and ISMTE Conference Registration

Grand Salon Lido Room

Thursday, August 118:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration and BreakfastLido Room

8:30 AM - 9:15 AMOpening Ceremony

9:15 AM - 10:00 AMKeynote Session

Journals in the Post-Sci-Hub WorldJohn Bohannon, PhD - Science Contributing Correspondent

VersaillesChange is coming to academic publishing. It was only a matter of time before pirate file-sharing made nearly all scientific papers free to read--for everyone. Will the publishing industry adapt the way that the music and movie industry has? Will we be accessing academic research on a platform like iTunes for $0.99 per paper? A research-streaming service like Spotify that costs $10 per month? Will all journals become Open Access instead, either green or gold, but with embedded advertising? Then again, there is powerful inertia in publishing. Bizarrely, the consumers in this industry are also the producers of its content, with careers that depend on journal reputations. So perhaps academic publishing won’t change quickly. (Don’t count on it.)

10:00 AM - 10:30 AMBreak with Exhibitors

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Welcome ISMTE Update AwardsVersailles

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11

10:30 AM - 11:15 AMBreakout Sessions

Session A: Managing Editor-in-Chief TransitionsLindsey Topp - Managing Editor, American Journal of GastroenterologyLaura Creighton - Director of Society Products and Audience Engagement, IEEEVersailles

Session B: Editorial Office Reporting / Using Reports for Good Decision-MakingGwen Baker - Senior Trainer, ScholarOne Manuscripts, Thomson-ReutersJudy Connors - Associate Director, Editorial Services, Drug Information AssociationSalon Venezia

Session C: Reputation ManagementErin Wiringi - Manager, Marketing Communications & Outreach, Publications, American Chemical Society Iratxe Puebla - Managing Editor, PLOS ONEBorghese Garden

11:30 AM - 12:15 PMBreakout Sessions

Session A: Managing and Rewarding Editorial Boards and ReviewersBruce Baum - Senior Editor, Oral DiseasesPatti Lockhart - Managing Editor: The Plant Cell, Plant Physiology, American Society of Plant BiologistsVersailles

Session B: Editorial Office Reporting / Using Reports for Good Decision-Making (repeated session)Gwen Baker - Senior Trainer, ScholarOne Manuscripts, Thomson-ReutersJudy Connors - Associate Director, Editorial Services, DIASalon Venezia

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11:30 AM - 12:15 PMBreakout Sessions Continued

Session C: Science for English Majors (Or, Understanding the World of the Researcher)Justin English, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Roth Laboratory University of North Carolina Department of PharmacologyBorghese Garden

12:15 PM - 1:30 PMNetworking Lunch

Sponsored by: Renaissance

1:30 PM - 2:45 PMInteractive Workshops

Session A: Improving Your Journal’s Instructions to AuthorsKurt Spurlock - Quality Assurance Lead, Research SquareErika Kessler - Academic Formatting Specialist, Research SquareVersailles

Session B: Detecting Misconduct in Images Christina Bennett, PhD - Associate Publisher, Ethics and Policy, American Physiological SocietySalon Venezia

Session C: Mastering Microsoft WordMartin Spiering, PhD, ELS, - Project Manager, CSR, Inc.Borghese Garden

3:00 PM - 4:00 PMPlenary Session

Research Integrity and Our Industry ResponsibilityElizabeth Moylan - Senior Editor for Research Integrity, BioMed CentralBettie M. Steinberg, PhD - Provost, Research, The Feinstein Institute for

Medical ResearchModerator: Margot Puerta - Manager, Laboratory of Biomedical Science,

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4:00 PM - 4:30 PMCoffee Break with Exhibitors

Grand Salon

4:30 PM - 5:15 PMVendor Breakout Sessions

Session A: ScholarOne - Chris Heid, Product LeadVersailles

Session B: eJournalPress - Anna Jester, Director of Sales and MarketingSalon Venezia

Session C: Aries Systems - Tony Alves, Director, Product ManagementBorghese Garden

Session D: Elsevier - Hazel Morton, Service Manager, ESS and EVISEBala Room

5:15 PM - 6:00 PMExchange Forum

Bring your burning questions and issues for your peers to help you solve!Versailles

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ReceptionSponsored by: Grand Salon

7:00 PM Dine-Around Dinners

Attending on your own? Or just want to meet more attendees? Sign up at the registration desk for one of our small group dinners at local restaurants (separate checks are arranged).

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Friday, August 12, 20168:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration and BreakfastLido Room

8:00 AM - 8:25 AMPoster Winners Presentations

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8:30 AM - 9:00 AMPlenary Session

Publishing News RoundupDavid Crotty, PhD - Editorial Director, Journals Policy,

Oxford University PressVersailles

9:15 AM - 10:30 AMInteractive Workshops

Workshop A: Figures 101: Understanding the Technology of Images and Helping Authors Lindsey Brounstein - Managing Editor, Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and HepatologyLauren Bragg - PLOS Production Client Manager, J&J EditorialVersailles

Workshop B: Social Media: How to Make it Work for your Publication Katie Murphy - Assistant Managing Editor and Social Media Manager, American College of Medical Genetics & GenomicsSalon Venezia

Workshop C: Production Best PracticesMatt Tomasheski - Team Leader, Production, ElsevierBorghese Garden

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12

10:30 AM - 11:00 AMBreak with Exhibitors

Grand Salon

11:00 AM - 12:00 PMBreakout Sessions

Session A: Data Sharing: Requirements & Best Practices Meredith Morovati - Executive Director, DryadBrooks Hanson - Director of Publications, American Geophysical UnionVersailles

Session B: The Business of Publishing Kathey Alexander - Publishing Consultant Joseph Esposito - Management ConsultantSalon Venezia

Session C: Online Security Risks in Academic PublishingAbhinav Mittal - CTO, Highwire Press, Inc.Tony Alves - Director, Product Management, Aries SystemsBorghese Garden

12:00 PM - 12:45 PMPlenary Session

Howard Ratner - Executive Director, CHORUSVersailles

12:45 PM - 1:00 PMWrap-Up Versailles

Box lunches available Grand Salon

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John Bohannon is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine. His reporting from the Gaza Strip won the Reuters-IUCN Media Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting from Europe. He is coauthor with Isabella Rosselini of “Green Porno” (winner of 4 Webby awards) and “Animals Distract Me” (official selection, 2011 Sundance Film Festival). His study of people’s inability to distinguish pet food from paté caused Stephen Colbert to eat cat food on television. He is the founder of the Science/AAAS “Dance Your PhD” contest. He has a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Oxford.

Speaker InformationKathey Alexander established her publishing consulting business in 2001. Her background encompasses all aspects of commercial and society publishing and all forms of information delivery. Kathey was formerly Executive Vice President of Professional Medical Publishing at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, where she was responsible for the medical book line, more than one hundred journals (proprietary and society owned), and controlled circulation newspapers.

Tony Alves is Director of Product Management at Aries Systems. Tony has worked in STM publishing since 1989 and has focused on electronic publishing for the past twenty years, designing online learning products and workflow management software. Tony joined Aries Systems in 2001 to manage the development and rollout of the Editorial Manager system and is responsible for designing new features and functions for the EM/PM system, as well as assisting in defining the strategic direction of the company including new product ideas and new market opportunities. Before that he served as Publisher at HealthStream, Inc., a leading provider of online educational tools for healthcare organizations; and at SilverPlatter Education, an early developer of multimedia products for physicians on CD-ROM and the Internet. Tony also worked at Harvard University, where he was an Assistant Managing Editor for the journal Circulation Research; and CV Mosby, assisting an Acquisitions Editor in the professional medical textbook department.

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Gwen Baker is the Senior Trainer for ScholarOne Manuscripts at Thomson Reuters. She has 16 years’ experience with the system, from implementation of a site to creating wonderful reports using Cognos. She works with journals all over the world teaching Administrators and Editors how to get the most out of using the ScholarOne Manuscripts system. She enjoys traveling all over the globe to teach as well as teaching web conference sessions.

Bruce Baum, PhD currently is a Scientist Emeritus at the NIH, after having spent 38 years in four NIH “Institutes”. He began his NIH career in 1976 as a post-doctoral fellow in the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Two years later he joined the National Institute on Aging as a senior investigator, and was recruited to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research as its clinical director and the chief of their Gene Therapy and Therapeutics Branch. In 2011 he joined the NIH Clinical Center to serve as Director of NIH’s Medical Research Scholars Program. This program is a yearlong, bench to clinical research, residential training program for medical, dental and veterinary students, with a goal of creating the next generation of biomedical scientists.

Christina Bennett, PhD is the Associate Publisher, Ethics and Policy, in the Publications Department of the American Physiological Society, Bethesda, Maryland (www.the-aps.org).  She is responsible for analyzing and addressing the ethics concerns that arise in the original research and review publications published by the Society. Her role also involves providing guidance on scientific best practice in publication ethics and policy. In addition, she has taken a leading role in acquiring NSF and NIH funding to develop teaching materials on the topics of publication ethics and data reproducibility.

Lauren Bragg graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and a minor in English. She joined the J&J Editorial team in April 2014, working in their Production department for the Public Library of Science on their Pathogens, Genetics, Computational Biology, and Neglected Tropical Diseases journals. She also joined J&J’s Copyediting department to work on the same four journals with the addition of PLOS’s flagship journals, Biology, and Medicine. That same year, Lauren assumed responsibility for a graphics task from the Public Library of Science. In January 2016, Lauren stepped into the PLOS Production Client Manager position at J&J, and facilitating communication between the Public Library of Science and J&J regarding production matters.

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Lindsey Brounstein is the managing editor of Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, an online-only, open access journal by the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA). Lindsey also works on the AGA’s other publications, Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and GI & Hepatology News. She also serves as the software training manager for the AGA, creating instructional modules and documentation, and facilitating the training of AGA staff in the Microsoft Office suite of products.

Judy Connors is Associate Director for Editorial Services at the Drug Information Association (DIA). She is a seasoned publishing professional with over 25 years’ experience in scholarly publishing and writing/editing diverse types of print/digital communications for pharmaceutical, healthcare and non-profit organizations. In her current position, she also acts as Managing Editor for DIA’s peer-reviewed scientific journal, Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science (TIRS) and its membership news magazine the Global Forum, as well as being responsible for development of website, newsletter, and association communications.

Laura Creighton For almost two decades, Laura has been working with IEEE’s large collection of journals and magazines covering a wide breadth of topics from foundational to emerging technologies.  As the program director for 190 journals and magazines, she works on ensuring excellence of coverage, developing new titles, strategic planning, and managing the periodical portfolio’s overall financial health.

David Crotty, PhD is the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversees journal policy and contributes to strategy across OUP’s journals program, drives technological innovation, serves as an information officer, and manages a suite of research society-owned journals.  David was previously an Executive Editor with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, creating and editing new science books and journals, and was the Editor in Chief for  Cold Spring Harbor Protocols.  David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing. David has been elected to and serves on the Boards of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the STM Association, and CHOR Inc.,  a not-for-profit public-private partnership to increase public access to research. As the Executive Editor of the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s Scholarly Kitchen blog, David regularly writes about current issues in publishing.

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Justin English, PhD is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Bryan Roth’s laboratory at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. He received his BS with a distinction in research from Cornell University in 2007 and his PhD from the Department of Pharmacology, UNC Chapel Hill, in Prof. Henrik Dohlman’s laboratory in 2014. His research focuses on modifying the way cells interpret and transmit information to control neuronal activity in living animals. In addition to his personal research interests, he is passionate about science communication, training, and outreach.

Joseph Esposito is a management consultant working primarily in the world of digital media, software, and publishing. His clients include both for-profits and not-for-profits. A good deal of his activity concerns research publishing, especially when the matter at issue has to do with the migration to digital services from a print background. Prior to setting up his consulting business, he served as CEO of three companies (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tribal Voice, and SRI Consulting), all of which he led to successful exits. Typically, he works on strategy issues, advising CEOs and Boards of Directors on direction; He also has managed a number of sticky turnarounds. Among other things, he has been the recipient of grants from the Mellon, MacArthur, and Hewlett Foundations, all concerning research into new aspects of publishing.

Brooks Hanson, PhD serves as the Director of Publications for the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He is responsible for overseeing AGU’s portfolio of many books and 19 journals and their editorial operations, helping set overall editorial policies, and leading future developments. Before arriving at AGU, he served as the Deputy Editor for Physical Sciences at Science and earlier as an editor at Science. Brooks has a PhD in Geology from UCLA and held a post-doctoral appointment at the Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution. His main areas or research and publications span the tectonics of the western U.S., metamorphic petrology, modeling magmatic and hydrothermal processes, and on scholarly publishing.

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Christopher Heid started his career as a Research Analyst for a financial data software company. After transitioning to a product management role, he entered the scholarly communication industry in 2011 with a product position at ScholarOne. His work focused on growth initiatives for their Manuscripts platform, a submission and peer-review workflow solution for publishers. Currently Chris serves as Product Lead for Thomson Reuters’ Publishers & Associations business, heading product management for a suite of solutions serving scholarly publishers, societies, and their constituents. Chris earned a BA in Economics from the University of Georgia.

Anna Jester began her career in publishing at Allen Press, Inc., where she started as a member of the online publishing division. She later moved to the online manuscript submission and peer review division and in time became the product manager for online publishing and online manuscript submission and peer review products. She also served as the Editor of FrontMatter, a newsletter devoted to issues that affect society and association publishers with a particular focus on technology.

In 2010 she moved to Maryland, joining eJournalPress as the Director of Sales & Marketing. Anna currently serves as a Co-Chair of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Membership Committee and is a member of the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) Poster Committee. She also serves on the Science Editor Editorial Board and as the Vice President of the Council of Science Editors (CSE).

Erika Kessler is an Academic Formatting Specialist at American Journal Experts. She has worked at AJE for over a year formatting technical and scientific papers for submission to journals. Before AJE, she was a Production Manager at a publishing company in Raleigh, NC where she designed and typeset college laboratory manuals for colleges and universities all over the US. She has worked in desktop publishing and typesetting for 23 years.

Patti Lockhart is Managing Editor of Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell, the two primary research journals published by the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). Her goals include using existing and new technologies to assist editors and reviewers, reduce production costs, and add value to content in the decentralized environment of generic search engines. Patti was the founding member of the Dartmouth Journal Services editorial department, where she worked until moving to ASPB in 2011.

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Abhinav Mittal heads engineering and IT at HighWire Press. He is responsible for building in the security and operating HighWire’s platform and products like BenchPress, JCore (hosting), Impact Vizor that serves millions of users daily securely.  He is a seasoned tech veteran with background in variety of domains like ad-tech, big data, and financial software. He holds a MS in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University, and a BS in Computer Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Meredith Morovati is the Executive Director of Dryad, a general-purpose curated data repository that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Before joining Dryad, Meredith was the Vice President of Membership for the American Society of Echocardiography for over six years, where she led membership growth and board engagement while increasing partnerships within the cardiovascular ultrasound community. Her experience prior to that includes stints in the publishing world with Oxford University Press and Blackwell.

Hazel Morton joined Elsevier in 2013 and is based in the Exeter office in the UK. In her current role of EES and EVISE Service Manager, she is responsible for liaising between the EVISE Product Team and the internal and external users of EES and EVISE to ensure that EVISE continues to improve for those who depend upon it. Prior to this role, Hazel worked for the EVISE Deployment Team helping journals to transition from EES to EVISE. These roles have ensured that Hazel has a strong understanding of the current capabilities of EVISE, the future roadmap for the system, and how best to manage the transition to the new system.

Elizabeth Moylan is the Senior Editor for Research Integrity at BioMed Central. She joined BioMed Central in 2004, as an in-house Editor handling peer review on the BMC series of journals in the early days of the open access movement. In her present role she has oversight of editorial policies and peer review processes at BioMed Central and is particularly interested in new models of peer review.

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Katharine (Katie) Murphy has worked in STM publishing for over 10 years with journals under Elsevier, Cell Press, the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) official journal Genetics in Medicine and, most recently, the FASEB journal. As an assistant managing editor and social media manager with the AHA, ACMG and FASEB, Katie has been an integral part of establishing and managing their social media sites while remaining involved in the submission, peer review, and publication processes. Katie has a bachelor’s degree in English with a concentration in writing and mass communications from Assumption College and a master’s degree in writing, literature and publishing from Emerson College. When not working, Katie enjoys spending time with her husband and two children, running, traveling and, on occasion, sleeping.

Iratxe Puebla is Managing Editor at PLOS ONE where she oversees the day-to-day editorial operations of the journal. Iratxe moved from research into publishing in 2003 when she joined the editorial team responsible for the BMC-series journals. She then became a freelance editor for several years, working for several organizations such as PLOS and COPE. She acted as Consulting Editor for PLOS ONE before joining the journal’s editorial team.

Margot Puerta is the Executive Editor of Molecular Medicine and Bioelectronic Medicine. She plans, organizes, and manages the staff and activities of the journal and is responsible for strategically guiding the development of Molecular Medicine, including web and multimedia content. Margot created and produces Mollie Medcast, a journal podcast available in iTunes. Previously, Margot held the position of Director of Scientific Affairs at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in New York. In this role, she worked with cross-functional internal teams to oversee biomedical research planning and operations of over 200,000 square feet of research space. She provided day-to-day management assistance to more than 20 laboratories and 400 employees.

Prior to assuming these roles, Margot worked as the manager for the Laboratory of Biomedical Science at the Feinstein Institute, co-authoring 14 neuroimmunology papers. Margot holds a BS in Biology from Fairfield University, an MS in Biology from Hofstra University and an MBA in Finance from the Frank G. Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University.

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Howard Ratner is the driving force behind CHOR Inc. and its first service, CHORUS: Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States.  Over the past two decades, he played a key role in developing innovative technology solutions that have transformed scholarly communications. 

He co-founded and chaired the not-for-profit ORCID–Open Researcher and Contributor ID system - and continues to serve as one of its Ambassadors. He was active in the establishment of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and the founding and technical development of Crossref and CLOCKSS. He served on the Board of Directors for the Society for Scholarly Publishing and was the SSP President from 2014-2015. He is an active member of the STM Future Labs. Howard received the NFAIS Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture Award in 2012. He is a frequent speaker on a variety of production and new technology themes. Before joining CHOR, he was Chief Technology Officer, Executive Vice-President, for Nature Publishing Group where he was in charge of global web and mobile development and operations, content management, production and manufacturing, and information technology across all NPG products. Howard also held positions Springer and Wiley.

Martin J. Spiering, PhD, ELS is a science editor and project manager at CSR, Incorporated, a research and technical support company based in Arlington, Virginia. A microbiologist by training with expertise in molecular biology, biochemistry, and bioinformatics, he has worked for 15+ years as a bench scientist in several international labs. He is a board-certified Editor in the Life Sciences, with extensive experience in writing and substantive editing of scientific and technical manuscripts and other documents. Tweaking and customizing Word and using add-on programs that streamline common editorial tasks are key to producing clean and consistent copy and will be the focus of his presentation.

Kurt Spurlock works at Research Square, where he leads Quality Assurance for all of the company’s manuscript services under the American Journal Experts (AJE) brand: Editing, Translation, Manuscript Formatting, Figure Formatting, and Scientific Illustration and Graphing. Kurt has worked with, and on behalf of, countless researchers to help ensure that their work meets the standards of their target journals. Before coming to Research Square, he completed an MA in English literature and a BS in physics. He currently serves on the Industry Advisory Board for the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors.

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Bettie M. Steinberg, PhD did her undergraduate work at the University of California, Riverside and received her PhD in Microbiology from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She then did a postdoctoral fellowship at SUNY Stony Brook, studying tumor viruses. After two years at Columbia University as a Senior Research Associate, she joined the Department of Otolaryngology at Long Island Jewish Medical where she began her studies of human papillomaviruses and their role in benign and malignant tumors of the head and neck. She is the author or co-author of 99 peer-reviewed publications and 25 book chapters. Her research has been recognized by a number of awards.

Matthew Tomasheski started his career as a Medical Equipment Analyst, proving client hospitals with reports to help them make informed purchasing decisions. In 2000, Matt joined W.B. Saunders as a Production Editor in the Journals Department. Shortly thereafter Elsevier acquired the company and Matt continued in his new role as Journal Manager for titles such as The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He was promoted in 2006 to the position of Assistant Manager in Journals Production and currently supervises a team of 14 Journal Managers who are responsible for the successful production of more than 20 society-owned journals including Mayo Clinic Proceedings, CHEST, and Journal of Vascular Surgery.

Lindsey Topp earned her undergraduate degree in English and Psychology from the University of Iowa in 2006. She has worked as an editor for a variety of non-profit scientific publications, including standardized test development and pharmaceutical standards. She has managed three scholarly journals and associated programs for the American College of Gastroenterology since 2012.

Erin Wiringi is a marketing professional with more than 15 years experience managing strategic communications strategies across a range of media and publishing outlets. She currently manages the marketing communications and outreach team at ACS Publications, focusing on building key strategic relationships with authors, reviewers, librarians, ACS members, readers and subscribers. Prior to joining the ACS, Erin was the e-marketing manager for the Brookings Institution Press, the owner and director of an online business based on a strategic business-to-consumer advertising model, and a marketing executive for a major metropolitan newspaper in New Zealand. She received her BS in Journalism from Northwestern and her Master’s Degree in Publishing from George Washington University.

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PresidentMichael WillisOxford, United KingdomEditorial Services Manager, Wileymiwillis@wiley.com

Michael Willis is Senior Manager, Peer Review, at Wiley, based in Oxford, UK, responsible for overseeing Wiley’s peer review operations within the UK. He has 11 years’ experience of managing editorial offices and in-house editorial office resource within Blackwell’s and then Wiley’s UK Health Sciences portfolio. After a spell of teaching and research in Greek and Latin, he started his publishing career with CatchWord (later Ingenta) in processing and developing online journal content for STM publishers. He has been a member of the ISMTE Board since 2010 and chaired the annual European Conference committee in 2011 and 2012. He is also a member of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE).

Immediate Past PresidentKristen OverstreetLeander, Texas USASenior Partner, Origin Editorial, LLCkristen.overstreet@mac.com

Kristen Overstreet earned her undergraduate degree in English and Journalism from Metropolitan State University of Denver in 1997. She began working with the Journal for the Society of Pediatric Nurses (now Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing) as the editorial assistant in 1998 and became the managing editor in 2006. In 2007, Ms. Overstreet became a managing editor full time, handling five titles, and joined the board of directors for ISMTE, becoming the founding editor of the society’s newsletter, EON. She is now a senior partner with Origin Editorial, LLC.

President-ElectJulie NashApex, North Carolina, USASenior Partner, J&J Editorial, LLCjulie@jjeditorial.com

Julie Nash is senior partner at J&J Editorial, LLC in Cary, North Carolina. Julie has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree from Duke University. She was an award-winning journalist in Washington,D.C., Pennsylvania, and North Carolina before becoming an assistant editor with Arthritis & Rheumatism (A&R) in May 2000. After working on A&R and other titles for several years, she founded J&J Editorial with partner Jennifer Deyton in 2008. In addition to being the President-Elect of ISMTE, Julie serves on the Professional Development Committee for the Council of Science Editors (CSE) and the membership committee for the Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP).

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Vice PresidentJan Higgins, PhD, ELSRaleigh, North Carolina, USAManaging Editor, Genetics in Medicinegim@acmg.net

Jan Higgins started out as a research scientist before transitioning to her current position as managing editor for Genetics in Medicine. Based in Raleigh, she has been in this role since 2006 but has continued as a freelancer in editing and writing scientific manuscripts. She also teaches graduate students how to write a scientific manuscript at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

TreasurerSally Gainsbury, PhDSydney, NSW AustraliaAssociate Editor, International Gambling Studiessally.gainsbury@scu.edu.au

Sally Gainsbury (PhD, DCP, B.Psych) is a clinical psychologist with over ten years’ experience in research to inform responsible gambling policies and strategies. She has led and worked on several large studies examining the impact of Internet gambling and effectiveness of various harm minimisation strategies based on new technologies. Dr. Gainsbury has authored two books on the topic of Internet gambling and numerous book chapters and peer review articles on this topic as well as responsible gambling strategies for Internet gambling and electronic gaming machines, youth gambling, and Internet-based treatment options. She has been invited to contribute to policy discussions by policy makers, treatment providers and industry operators in Australia, Canada, and the UK and given keynote addresses, workshops, presentations, and panel discussions at numerous international conferences. Dr. Gainsbury is the Editor of the academic journal International Gambling Studies. She is a member of the International Editorial Board for the journals Psychology of Addictive Behaviors and International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. She served on the board of the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors from 2010-2014.

SecretaryDeborah Bowman, MFAWentzville, Missouri, USAManaging Editor, GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopydbowman@asge.org

Deborah Bowman has been the Managing Editor for GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy for nine years. Before that, she worked as a manager in the journals department of Elsevier. Deborah has an MFA in writing from the University of Missouri and a BA in English Education from Purdue University. She was a founding member of Loosely Identified, a women’s writing group in St. Louis, and has been a member of The Project, a poetry-writing group, for 15 years. She was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of EON from 2011 through 2012. She gave a presentation entitled “The Philosophy of Editing” at the ISMTE North American Conference in 2009.

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Diana EpsteinGlasgow, UKManaging Editor, Di-Ep Biomedical Editorial Services Ltddiana.epstein@di-ep.com

Diana Epstein’s background is in the hotel industry, having worked for three years in the front office, reservations, and international reservations at a well known hotel chain. She then moved to Germany and after a child care break began her career in the world of publication in June 1996. The journal developed, and by the time she relocated to Glasgow in July 2005 not only was the journal position full time, but also she had acquired additional journals. In Glasgow, Di-Ep Biomedical Editorial Services was founded. Diana has been a member of the ISMTE resource committee, and she contributes to EON. She is also a member of EASE (European Association of Science Editors) and EMWA (European Medical Writers Association).

Adam EtkinNew York City, New York, USAPresident, Etkin Consultingadametkin@verizon.net

Adam Etkin is President of Etkin Consulting and Founder of PRE (Peer Review Evaluation). In 1994 Adam founded OakTek Web Architects, providing technology solutions for several retail companies. Over the past eighteen years he has established himself as a leader in the scholarly publishing industry and is highly experienced with the peer-review process and integrated systems. He is also well-versed in scholarly metrics, and all aspects of the scholarly publishing environment and related technology, having received his Masters of Publishing from Pace University.

Meghan McDevittDowners Grove, Illinois, USAAssistant Manager of Clinical Resources, GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopymmcdevitt@asge.org

Meghan McDevitt works for the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy as the Assistant Manager of Clinical Resources. In this role, she oversees the development, review, and publication of the society’s clinical practice guidelines. She is also the Editor of EON, ISMTE’s monthly publication. She has been involved with ISMTE since 2011. Meghan attended the University of Dayton, graduating in 2010 with degrees in English and French. She is currently enrolled in the University of Chicago’s Graham School Medical Writing and Editing Certificate program.

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Margot PuertaNew York City, New York, USA Executive Editor, Molecular Medicine and Bioelectronic Medicinemargot@molmed.org

Margot Puerta is the Executive Editor for both Molecular Medicine and Bioelectronic Medicine. She is responsible for strategically guiding the development of the journals, including web and multimedia content. During her six-year tenure as Managing Editor for Molecular Medicine, Margot oversaw the peer-review process, redesigned the journal website, and mentored Associate Editors. Prior to assuming these roles, Margot worked as an Associate Editor and Assistant Editor for Molecular Medicine as well as a Senior Project Editor for Macmillian/McGraw Hill Health & Sciences Division.

Sherryl SundellHeidelberg, Germany Managing Editor, International Journal of CancerS.Sundell@dkfz-heidelberg.de

Born in the United States and educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sherryl settled in Germany and has worked in publishing for over twenty years. As a copy editor for medical books and journals at Springer-Verlag in Heidelberg, Germany, Sherryl was privileged to be a member of the department closely involved in developing various tools for computer editing from the start. Over this period it became clear that at least for science editing and publishing, online was the future. Since 2002, Sherryl has been Managing Editor of the International Journal of Cancer, a large cancer research journal receiving over 3,000 submissions per year and publishing 24 print issues per year. IJC is owned by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC, Geneva, Switzerland), and published by Wiley.

Meg WeistLas Vegas, Nevada, USAManaging Editor, American Journal of Medical Genetics and the AJMG Seminars in Medical Geneticsmargaret.weist@hsc.utah.edu

Meg Weist is the Managing Editor for the American Journal of Medical Genetics and the AJMG Seminars in Medical Genetics. She has been with the Journal for over 10 years and came from the world of textbook publishing prior to that. Her editorial focus has been shaped by her background in the sciences and a longstanding interest in words. Meg is part of today’s offsite work force supporting her Editors worldwide, primarily from her home office in Las Vegas and sometimes a more formal one in Salt Lake City, UT. She continues to be intrigued by the advances of digital technology and is always looking for effective ways to share ideas within the editorial community.

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Past PresidentsImmediate Past PresidentKristen OverstreetLeander, Texas, USA Senior Partner, Origin Editorial kristen.overstreet@mac.com

Kristen Overstreet earned her undergraduate degree in English and Journalism from Metropolitan State University of Denver in 1997. She began working with the Journal for the Society of Pediatric Nurses (now Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing) as the editorial assistant in 1998 and became the managing editor in 2006. In 2007, Ms. Overstreet became a managing editor full time, handling five titles, and joined the board of directors for ISMTE, becoming the founding editor of the society’s newsletter, EON. She is now a senior partner with Origin Editorial, LLC.

Glenn CollinsSan Diego, California, USA Director of Business Development/Managing Editor, Origin Editorial gcollins@acc.org

Born and raised in New York, Glenn Collins graduated from Cornell University in 1991 and entered the world of STM publishing a few years later. He started at John Wiley & Sons working his way up to Acquisitions Editor in the Reference Works division before heading west to San Diego. After a brief stint with the journal Brain Research he was the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) and associated journals from 2001 to 2014.  He joined Origin Editorial as a Managing Editor and Director of Business Development in August 2014.

Elizabeth BlalockChapel Hill, North Carolina, USAManaging Editor, Journal of Investigative Dermatologyblalock@sidnet.org

Elizabeth Blalock has been Managing Editor of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology since 2002. Previously, she managed the Journal Endocrinology. Elizabeth is a founding member of the International Society for Managing and Technical Editors, and she served as its President from 2010-2011. She has been a member of the Council of Science Editors since 1998 and currently serves as co-chair for its Short Course on Publication Ethics. Elizabeth has spoken on peer review management and reporting as well as managing change and publication ethics for these and other international organizations. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and she earned a Master’s degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Founding PresidentJason Roberts, PhDPlymouth, Massachusetts, USAExecutive Editor, Headache; Journal of Sexual Medicinejournal@ahsnet.org

After earning a doctorate in Geography from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, Jason began work in the subscription services department at Blackwell Science in Oxford, UK. Following a move to Blackwell’s US office, he joined that company’s editorial team and eventually rose to Publishing Manager and, subsequently, Senior Editor of US-based medical journals; in the latter position he developed and managed budgets and business plans and oversaw society/editor relations with the publisher. In 2004 he left Blackwell to become a Managing Editor. After receiving several requests to help out struggling editorial offices, along with Kristen Overstreet, he now runs Origin Editorial, providing peer review operational support and consultancies on peer review management best practice.

Dr. Roberts frequently serves as an invited speaker on such topics as publication ethics, peer review management, and editorial office best practices. He is also an active supporter of using guidelines such as CONSORT for Randomized Controlled Trials to strengthen reporting standards in biomedical journals, believing that a smartly-run editorial office can deliver improvements to the quality of peer review and not just perform a purely operational role.

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Elizabeth Blalock, ChairChapel Hill, NC, USA

Julie Nash, Board LiaisonCary, NC, USA

Lindsey BrounsteinBethesda, MD, USA

Michelle EnglishCary, NC, USA

Sarah ForgengChapel Hill, NC, USA

Steve MusserHanover, PA, USA

Margot PuertaManhasset, NY, USA

Jessica RuckerWashington, DC, USA

Kurt SpurlockDurham, NC, USA

George WoodwardPhiladelphia, PA, USA

2016 North American Conference Planning Committee

Ira Salkin Scholarship

The Board has established an annual scholarship in Ira Salkin’s memory which will take effect in 2017. The objective of this scholarship is to uphold Ira’s goal of ensuring that editorial office professionals are educated and vigilant in matters of publishing ethics.

Applications will be taken in the form of an essay relating to a topic in publishing ethics. The award recipient will receive funding to attend one of our three annual meetings.

More information coming soon!

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Industry Advisory BoardTony Alves

Director of Product Management Aries Systems Corporation

North Andover, MA, USA

Steve MusserJournal Sales Representative

The Sheridan PressHanover, PA, USA

Peter Binfield, PhDCo-Founder and Publisher

PeerJSan Francisco, CA, USA

Donald SamulackPresident, U.S. Operations

Cactus Communications, IncTrevose, PA, USA

Irene Hames, PhDEditorial and Publishing Consultant

York, UK

Kurt SpurlockQuality ManagerResearch SquareDurham, NC, USA

Anna JesterDirector of Sales and Marketing

eJournalPressRockville, MD, USA

Charles TrowbridgePublications Division

American Chemical SocietyWashington, DC, USA

Theresa MonturanoPublisher

Elsevier, IncPhiladelphia, PA, USA

Edward WatesGlobal Journal Content Management

Director, WileyOxford, UK

Kelly SchildElmhurst, IL, USA

Executive Director

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